We are happy to offer insightful interviews with the authors and illustrators of our 26 Selected Titles of the autumn.
We invite you to get better aquainted with the books and also the people who wrote and illustrated them!
In April 2026, Norway will be Guest of Honour at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the world’s largest book fair dedicated to children’s and young adult literature. The Guest of Honour project offers a unique opportunity to showcase Norwegian literature for young readers and to highlight the high artistic quality of illustration from Norway.
What if up were down?
What if the outside were the inside?
What if I were you?
Our translator of the month for December is Are Tjihkkom, who translates fiction into Sámi. He works primarily from English, but he has also produced translations from Norwegian, Swedish, German, Finnish and Spanish. His main focus is on books for adult readers, but he tries to work on a variety of material from numerous sub-genres, including fantasy, comedy and science fiction. Are established his own publishing house in 2020 through which he publishes his translations, and has so far released nine titles, with the tenth underway. His mother tongues are Sámi and Finnish, and he uses the written language of Lule Sámi in his translations.
Publishers from the entire world, including from the Nordic region, can apply for NORLA’s subsidies for translations of Norwegian literature.
Below you will find information on translation subsidies granted the last couple of years.
More information about NORLA’s translation subsidies – and how to apply – is available here.
Translators are absolutely key to spreading Norwegian literature around the world. Their work is of vital importance and to showcase this work in 2015 we started the interview series «Translator of the Month». Here we become better acquainted with translators from the Norwegian language and their challenging work, which introduces Norwegian literature to all the different languages of the world.
In 2020 our series of interviews became a translator relay, where each translator passes the baton and a question on to a colleague. We are thrilled to continue our interviews with translators of Norwegian literature into a myriad of languages.
Hunger
Sult
Dog Days
Hundedagar
Shhh
Hysj
Green Stuff
Grønne greier
Northern Lights
Nordlys
What Happened to You?
Hva skjedde egentlig med deg?
Wild. On the Trail of the Red Fox
Reven. Portrett av et villdyr
The Border
Grensen. En reise rundt Russland fra Nord-Korea til Nord-Norge samt gjennom Nordøstpassasjen
I Live a Life Like Yours
Jeg lever et liv som ligner deres
Drafts from the Mariana Trench
Marianegropen
Quisling's Suitcase. In The Footsteps of the World's Most Infamous Traitor
Quislings koffert. I fotsporene til en forræder
Frida: My long lost grandmother’s war
Frida. Min ukjente farmors krig
Essays
Essay
The First Mystery
Det første mysteriet